| The commercialization of space is here and | | | | way to launch a private spacecraft?Is it best |
| now in the present period. We saw space ship | | | | to launch it from a mother ship, which |
| one win the X-Prize and take home the check | | | | carries it up or is it best to launch from |
| for $10 million. Indeed Burt Rutan, Paul | | | | the ground? Some believe it may be easier to |
| Allen and Sir Richard Branson were the first | | | | float the spaceship up on a giant balloon |
| to send a private spacecraft into space. Yes | | | | into the upper atmosphere and then launched |
| they were the first, but they are not the | | | | from there.Indeed there are competing |
| only company working on this.There are many | | | | theories on what to do and how to do it. |
| other companies working on private | | | | Space ship one proved it could be done by |
| spacecraft, which will be used to take space | | | | flying to an altitude of 40,000 feet in |
| tourists into orbit and eventually to the | | | | launching from there. Of course in the past |
| moon. As a matter-of-fact several people | | | | NASA and the USAF has launched rocket plane |
| currently have such ambitions and dreams to | | | | aircraft from giant cargo type aircraft or |
| corner the market on space tourism.Space ship | | | | bombers.In the end we will see one method |
| one in their newly formed company already | | | | prove that it is more efficient than another |
| house over 35,000 people on a waiting list to | | | | and perhaps this will be the one, which most |
| go into space and they already have deposits | | | | private space companies use. Consider this |
| in the bank. But what is the most efficient | | | | in 2006. |